Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 783 40. Merlin's Sour Chicken Soup

"Merlin, my name is Merlin."

Merlin patted Johnny on the shoulder, and he said:

"I didn't know you've been looking for me all these years..."

"Actually, I'm not looking for it all the time."

On the sunny rooftop, Johnny smiled a little embarrassedly, and said to Merlin:

"When I witnessed my father's death, I realized that I was in a terrible situation. I didn't know who could help me. I didn't dare to tell other people about it. They would think it was nonsense. joke."

"I've been looking for you for a few years, but there's no result. Later, I gave up a little bit."

"Probably because the devil didn't show up. I slowly took it lightly until I had an accident the first time I performed a stunt. I should have died at the time, but I didn't have...a force protecting me. "

Johnny said to Merlin with a complex expression:

"At that time, I knew that the devil had never been far away from me, so I continued to go crazy looking for you, but you seemed to have disappeared from the world."

"It's hard for you to find him, cutie, you have no idea who your 'old friend' is."

Swaying her graceful figure, Satana walked to Merlin's side, staring curiously at the cane in Merlin's hand.

After a while, she crossed her hips again, put her hands on Johnny's shoulders in a coquettish posture, and said to Johnny:

"Especially if you're alone... There's no way you'll find Merlin."

"It must be very hard, right?"

Dimon, a cunning guy, also chimed in and said:

"A person hides a secret that cannot be known by others. While worrying about the arrival of the devil, he keeps trying various useless methods to save himself. The only hope is that there is no news..."

"Tsk tsk, just thinking about it makes me feel hopeless."

"It's very hopeless."

Johnny bowed his head and said:

"No life, no friends, only fear, the waiting time is the hardest... I pray every night when I go to sleep, but I guess there is no heaven to answer a soul who has made a pact with the devil."

"So we're here to help you."

Dimon said in a tone of false concern:

"We heard your despair, we spent a lot of time, a lot of energy, and took risks to come to your side..."

"Mephisto activated the contract, you also got power, and the best part is, because the spirit of vengeance merged with you, Johnny, now even Mephisto can't control you anymore... "

"Congratulations, brother."

He patted Johnny on the shoulder and said:

"you're free."

"It's not the kind of freedom I want."

Johnny glanced at Damon, who had a gentle expression, but looked strange no matter how he looked, and said:

"What I want is for this to end completely, I don't want anything to do with these things... There's a girl waiting for me and I know she's waiting for me and I want to stand in front of her and say Speak, even a word is fine."

"You have so many demands."

Damon pouted, and the half-demon said:

"The idea is also very naive. You remind me of those who were born in peaceful times... Uh, I'm not mocking you, really."

"Okay, Damon."

Merlin shook his head at his companion, and he said to Damon and Satana:

"Why don't you go and help Liana? I heard that she is at war with a hell lord again... Go kill some demons and relax. I'll leave this to me."

"I'm not interested in fighting."

Satana turned around with folded arms, and while the cloak was waving, she said to her brother:

"I heard that a new nightclub has opened in Sulfur Harbor. It's an anti-Christ style. It's very interesting. I'm going to have fun there."

"Play, play! Know how to play all day long!"

Damon curled up his fingers, and knocked hard on his sister's head. He hated iron and said:

"Can you learn more magic if you have the time?"

"The Sons of Hell have new members. Except for Asazo, who has limited talent, you are the weakest. My sister, can you be a little bit self-motivated?"

"If we fail, let's not talk about it. What if our rebellion succeeds?"

Damon said to his sister Satana in a painstaking tone:

"If we control a hell in the future, just like Liana, we don't have enough strength, how can we sit in that position?"

"How tiring it is to practice."

Satana held her head and retorted unconvinced:

"Besides, we are the children of the devil. We rely on talent to use magic. Besides, don't you still have you? My brother, at worst, you will be the king of hell in the future, and you will make me the prince of idleness..."

"I don't really care about these things. After my mother died, our life was miserable enough."

"Our father will do something to us one day, and you know what he will do, and he is capable enough to do it. Relying on Merlin, relying on Liana, relying on you and me, it is really difficult for us to make resist."

The expression of Satana, who was always full of lust, became gloomy and depressed at this moment, and she said softly:

"If life insists on forcing you, then... you'd better enjoy yourself while it's time, brother."

"Don't be so pessimistic, sister."

At this moment, Damon faded away all the hypocrisy. Like a real good brother, he reached out and put his arms around his sister's shoulders. He said softly:

"Aren't we working hard? Neither Merlin nor I will let that future happen... I won't allow me to lose a loved one again."

"Ah."

Satana nodded silently.

She looked back at Merlin who was sitting on the edge of the roof with Johnny, talking in a low voice, a smile suddenly appeared on her charming and beautiful face, and she said to Damon:

"Merlin is making up those chicken soups again. He likes to cook those chicken soups for the soul... about heroes, about responsibilities, missions and so on."

"I really admire him, brother."

satana says:

"He obviously does the same thing as us, and wants Johnny to do it with us, but he can put such a gorgeous and righteous cloak on his actions every time... He is really hypocritical! "

"No, sister."

Damon's figure became unreal in the shadows. He looked at Merlin's back and said:

"His set is very useful. He needs to train immature people into real warriors... The set of sayings about the Son of Destiny and the Mission of Justice are the most useful for immature people, especially those who want to be heroes. Those ones..."

"The most important thing is that Merlin is not hypocritical..."

"He himself believes what he said. He keeps saying that he doesn't like heroes, but if you look at this world, the most powerful heroes in this world are either found by him or shaped by him. ..”

"Our Merlin...behind his cold exterior, he also has a burning heroic heart."

"He's just arrogant and unwilling to admit it."

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"Johnny, your heart is in turmoil, I can feel it... Even after joining us, you are still at a loss."

On the roof of an unnamed high-rise building in Austin, Merlin sat on the edge of the roof. His feet were tens of meters high in the air. His legs were hanging there, and the cane shining red light was placed by his hand.

And beside him, Johnny Blazer, who was wearing a motorcycle driver's uniform, was also sitting there.

But compared to Merlin's calmness, Johnny always looked down at his feet from time to time.

He has not broken away from normal people's thinking. For ordinary people, this rooftop is a dangerous place. Just a little accident is enough to cause death.

"I just thought maybe we could talk somewhere else, Merlin."

Johnny tried to hold his head up. He was a lonely man, and because of that, he didn't want to expose his fears in front of his new friends.

He tried hard to adjust the atmosphere.

"No, not just fear."

Merlin stretched out his hand, and as Beowulf squirmed, a hood was draped over Merlin's head, blocking the direct sunlight.

"There is something else in your heart, as the saying goes, Johnny, when you have a goal, you will no longer be confused, but this is just some rancid chicken soup, which means nothing to you. "

"There are too many factors that affect our progress. In this real world, there are many things you want to do but can't do."

"You're loathing yourself, Johnny, not just because of those things in your soul, in fact, maybe before Mephisto started the contract, you already started loathing yourself."

"Look, you've been doing the most dangerous job in the world. I don't think you like this job, nor do you enjoy the excitement. You're just looking for death..."

Merlin turned to look at his new companion beside him.

Although the time they really became friends was very short, even less than 2 hours, but because of those things in the past, the relationship between him and Johnny was very natural, and there was no jerky feeling when facing strangers.

Well, this may also be because Icarus informed Merlin of all the information about Johnny Blazer in advance.

Johnny knew nothing about Merlin.

But Merlin knew most of what Johnny had done over the years.

"If you keep hating yourself, you'll never really get the freedom you want..."

"Tell me, Johnny, there is still a lot of time until the next night comes, maybe we can solve your knot, and then we can find a way to solve the problem between you and the soul in your body."

Johnny Blazer was silent for a few seconds, he took a deep breath, and said:

"Well, you're right, Merlin, you read people's hearts."

"That's right, everyone calls me the craziest racer. I have challenged stunts that are impossible for others to complete time and time again, jumping over trucks, flying over helicopters, etc. I'm looking for death, Merlin."

"Every time the car takes off... I close my eyes."

Johnny stretched out his hand and made a gesture of grabbing the accelerator. He said:

"I've always been conflicted. A part of my soul is longing for self-destruction, maybe death can get rid of all this. But another part is instinctively struggling to survive."

"I don't dare to make friends. I haven't dared to make friends since my first friend died in a car accident 7 years ago. I know very well that I killed him."

Johnny sighed, put his hands on his knees, and said:

"There is no happiness left for me in this world. I don't deserve those happiness. The devil is watching me, and I am plagued by disasters."

"It's still hard to let go, isn't it?"

Merlin took out two cigars and handed one to Johnny. He snapped his fingers, and two groups of flames appeared in front of their eyes. As the smoke rose, Merlin said:

"The thing about your father, you never thought of forgetting it, it was a thorn in your heart, preventing you from integrating into this world, making you a lonely freak."

"Ah."

Johnny nodded, probably because of the smoke, rubbed his eyes, and said:

"He could live longer, I thought I was saving him, but I killed him, the next day..."

"On his favorite and best stage, I killed him, I killed my father, how can I let go?"

"I was going to tell you it wasn't your fault, Johnny."

Merlin patted Johnny on the shoulder, and he said to the lonely man:

"But let me skip the boring part. When you first met me, my situation was very similar to yours. I was also plagued by disaster..."

"My situation is more serious than yours. I also killed many people, many innocent people. Do you know how I survived?"

"I do good things, Johnny."

Merlin whispered in Johnny's ear:

"Keep doing good deeds, keep helping others, keep working hard, and try my best to maintain order. I don't have a home anymore, so I protect those who still have a home."

"I atone, and I swear I won't let the same thing happen to anyone else... Running away is the worst thing you can do, Johnny."

"And now it's even worse, you've fallen into hell, where weak people can't survive, so you have to be strong."

He stood up and said to Johnny:

"So come here, let's do something nice."

Johnny followed Merlin to the center of the rooftop. The latter put the blood-red cane in his hand on the ground, and with the beating of Merlin's fingers, a dark red hell barrier was opened on the rooftop.

The dimensional disorder made the spirit of revenge in Johnny's body ready to move, and Merlin signaled him not to panic.

In this hell barrier, many black wraiths were flying back and forth, howling, making the temperature under the sun extremely low.

"These are the vengeful spirits bound by St. Van Gonzach. They have worn away all their will in more than 200 years of imprisonment. They now desire freedom, no matter what kind of freedom it is, just like you."

Merlin spread his hands and said to Johnny in front of him:

"You can set these poor souls free, Johnny, and judge them for their sins with those eyes of yours, and it will drive them out of their wits, but they'll also get what they've been wanting for over 200 years, and they'll get what they've been wanting from Mephisto's vile Get rid of the joke."

"Come do something good, Johnny, put your mind to rest, and then join us to give Mephisto a hard slap in the face at some point in the future."

"Think of it as redemption, as revenge..."

"Your power comes from hell, but there's no rule that you can't use it for good."

Johnny stood in the barrier of hell, he didn't need to look, the ability from the Ghost Rider could let him smell the evil on these wraiths, and their wailing desires, the spirit of revenge had already started howling.

"But, but I won't..."

Johnny looked at Merlin as if asking for help, and he said:

"I don't know how to use it yet, I dare not respond to it, last night, it did terrible things..."

"It's ok."

Merlin walked up to Johnny, put his hand on Johnny's shoulder, and said:

"You are not alone anymore, you can ask for help and I will teach you."

"It's not difficult at all..."

"It's not hard to do good deeds."

(End of this chapter)